Week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

Activity One :

Exploring Eggs

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The Chicken Drama

Show children the Chicken & Her Nest Poster

Role Playing Children will role-play chicks hatching out of eggs

Let children see and touch real chicken

Use a variety of real animal eggs to explain to children the variety of animals that come from eggs

Have students compare the size, color and shape of eggs

Animal pictures: Show pictures of various animals hatching from eggs

Use plastic eggs with various animals & allow students to identify the animals inside the eggs

Egg play & Assessment

Leave basket for children to play with eggs. Monitor children and ask what kinds of animals come from eggs.

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Activity Two:

Hatching Eggs

Read Aloud

Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones

Animal Sorting

Children will guess what animals are in plastic eggs

Decorate Eggs

Student color eggs, ostrich, fish, snake focusing in identify characteristics

“Find My Egg”

Organizing Sorts Into Graphs

Sort animals that hatch from eggs into various columns, ex. Legs, no legs

Graph Again

Continue to sort animals, have children make columns by the number of legs the animals have.

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Assessment

While children are making columns teacher will ask, which animals have legs, and which ones have more than four? Etc.

Activity Three:

Eggs on Land, Eggs in Water

Turtle Drama

Students will explore with live turtle

Creative Play

Children will play and learn about animals that lay eggs in water and on land: will use tubs of water, plastic eggs.

Clay Eggs and Animals

Students will use clay to make animals that come from eggs.

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Creating habitats

Students will continue making animals from clay and will begin to create habitats that are appropriate for each animal.

Assessment

While students are molding animals and habitats, the teacher will ask, what animal is that, where do they lay their eggs? Etc